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Development Aid and Sustainable Economic Growth in Africa

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38936-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-38935-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 27, 2016

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A Practitioner’s Perspective on Development Aid

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 1 –42

[Raudino offers a wide array of anecdotal evidence from his fieldwork experience as a UN and EU civil servant in Angola (2005–2006), South Africa (2007–2008) and Afghanistan (2013–2016) to introduce some of the critical questions setting the systematic research developed in the book. Why official...
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The Theory of Economic Development

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 43 –77

[Are developing countries, and particularly African countries, really gaining from their linkages—including Official Development Assistance (ODA)—to developed countries? Answers provided by different academic theories to this straightforward question reach radically different perspectives....
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The Praxis of Economic Growth: Lessons from History

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 79 –127

[Because economic theory provides such disparate views on normative action in international political economy, Raudino proposes to use the history of economic praxis as a design and implementing guide for public economic policies in low-income countries. By looking at the work of economic...
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A Quantitative Assessment of Africa’s International Economic Relations

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 129 –164

[Raudino provides an encompassing review of Africa’s international economic relations by collecting key data in African countries’ balances of payments (BoPs), including international transactions of goods and services and primary and secondary income in the current account, as well as foreign...
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A Qualitative Analysis of Africa–West Economic Relations

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 165 –207

[Africa and the West have had intense political and economic relations since the seventh century BC, throughout institutional arrangements as different as trading posts, colonial treaties and relations among sovereign nations standing on (a formally) equal footing. While on the one side such an...
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A Qualitative Analysis of Africa–China Economic Relations

Raudino, Simone

Pages: 209 –244

[China has had far more superficial relations with Africa than any major European nation: although archaeological findings place the first contact between the two regions during the Sung dynasty (960–1279 AD), it was not until 1413 that the Chinese Admiral Zheng Ho established early trading...

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